Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb

Author:Robin Hobb
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Fantasy - Epic, Fantasy - General, Fantasy fiction, Dragons, Quests (Expeditions), Fiction - Fantasy, Fiction, Fantasy, General, Epic
ISBN: 9780553582468
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2004-11-23T16:33:45.201000+00:00

The Tawny Man 3 - Fools Fate

chapter 20

CORRIDORS

It is said that at one time there was a seer or oracle who resided on Aslevjal Island. This tale seems to be very old. Some tell it that there was only one, and she lived for many generations, but remained young, raven haired and black eyed. Others say that there was a mothershouse of oracles, with a Great Mother who passed on her seer's duties to her elder daughter in turn, so that a succession of oracles served there. All speak of them as having lived beyond their Great Mother's day. There remains no living witness to the truth of this tale. It was said that the seer lived within the glacier and emerged only to accept offerings that visitors brought to Icefyre. If a seeker of truth brought animals to sacrifice, the seer would do the bloodletting and then fling the entrails into the air and let them fall smoking to the ice. The future of the visitor was spelled out in the curling of the guts. After the reading, in the name of the dragon, she would claim the sacrificed animal.

--COCKLE'S COLLECTED OUTISLANDER TALES

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